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I've always thought that kind of business model was a bit questionable. You build a client and show ads on top of someone else's content?

We consider it pretty ridiculous if a browser were to inject its own ads. Yet if you build a client that pulls free content from https://librivox.org/ or podcast RSS and serve it from their servers, nobody bats an eye if you inject ads into it.

Though I'm pretty sure I haven't noticed ads on Apollo off the top of my head. I thought their biz model was to just paywall pro features.

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Apollo doesn't have any ads or do this, not sure what that person is talking about. (Apollo dev)

I'm guessing he means the upgrade call to action or release notes (lots of updates to the app so some might consider it an annoyance who knows). BTW, thanks for the app. After Alien Blue died a slow painful death I was lost for a decent client.

Please change the swipe sensitivity for collapsing comments or sending replies or maybe change single tap to collapse. I always trigger replies when I want to collapse.

Edit: found the setting and changed both to collapse (I'm pretty sure it wasn't there before. This app's constantly being polished up)

You're completely right, I was mistaken. Was thinking of other Reddit client's I've tried. It's been a long time since I purchased the full edition so my memory is a bit hazy. Sorry about that.

We consider it pretty ridiculous if a browser were to inject its own ads.

Ridiculous or not, Brave does exactly this.

I don't care, personally. If Reddit wants my eyeballs, they should stop with the user-hostile behavior that's driven me away from the site. As long as they serve an API, I'm in luck, because someone who cares about their users can build a better interface on top.

If they stop doing this, well, no big loss; I have enough ways to waste time.

Reddit's developer terms do have a provision for contacting them with regards to monetizing your app. I recall the developer of "reddit is fun" had a revenue share agreement with reddit.

YouTube for example, prohibits showing any ads on screens that serve YouTube api data, and you will lose api access if they catch you doing that.

Morally, I don't see this as in any way worse than reddit, which is doing the exact same thing, albeit hosting the platform on which people are sharing their content in the first place.

You're right, it is just to paywall pro features. I was mistaken. Mixed it up with other Reddit clients.

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